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I'm from Montreal and just got back from Miami last night after a 7 day stay in Kendall. Spent a couple of days in Miami beach and went out to Liv last Saturday night. All I could say is my 40 year love for Miami is stronger than ever. My wife and I were just talking this morning about moving there. I love it. Just one thing though. No one speaks English!!!!!!!!! It's unbelievable. The Walmart the public the Walgreens nobody spoke English. How is this possible? Anyways I still love the city and always will. It's simply beautiful!!!

Hell, even spanish speakers find it weird no one in Kendall speaks english.

We also have one of the highest aids/HIV rates in the country and one of the lowest graduation rates in the country as well. Can you blame us? We are the deepest city in the South. THE SOUTH! The birthplace of ignorance and backwards thinking. In a country where the key issues are gun control and the president's race instead of education and healthcare. I would never root for the Davie Dolphins or the West Palm Beach Tortoises. Sorry.

Miami is arguably one of the most diverse cities amongst minorities in all of the world, even in just those 400k of people, most people are of hispanic decent but from different countries, followed by blacks, and the biggest minority being caucasions. But when you include the Metro-Dade Area of South Florida the ethnical diversity is diluted, and you then have these upper class or "upper class thinking" individuals who feel their town full of over privileged retirees would be better served by an NFL team.

I'm sorry but Miami's inner city, like most inner cities, is full of poverty, but in Miami the poverty rate is larger mostly due to the large amount of hispanic immigrants that are instantly poor from the moment they step onto U.S. soil. People who left desperately bad situations in their home countries, which they love, all in hopes to one day progress to just a regular life, but who are faced with the reality that even people in the U.S., specifically and specially the poor, go hungry and get gunned down for papers with peoples faces on it.

These sports teams, like the Lions, Browns, Raiders, Dolphins, Ravens, etc. are beacons of hope in inner cities marred by the reality of what it means to be poor and unable in the "land of opportunity" blinding the hopeless with the dreams of gridiron gold and the ability to dream of a life that even a god would dream of, in a place where most have only had the opportunity to simply dream.

I will tell you one thing though, that stat sheet can't measure heart and culture, something that Miami has more of than any other city in the United States. I am 26 years old and I have lived in Miami since I was 4 years old. When I was 13, I moved to Hialeah. I have traveled all over the U.S. and I have visited several countries in Central and Southern America as well as some in Asia. That is why I feel it is safe to say that Miami, undoubtedly, has more of a je ne se quoi than any other city within a 5,000 mile radius, making it more than deserving to have any and all of the sports teams it does have.

Broward County and West Palm are just mad because no one cares about old people and palm trees. Get over it.

Miami has the most beautiful people in the world. No one in the history of beauty has ever said " the most beautiful people come from Ft. Lauderdale." Get over it.

Your ignorance towards Broward and Palm Beach put a dark lining on your feelings for Miami-Dade. Miami has been poor well before it was overrun by Cubans and other Hispanics. The black community was always the heart of Miami was in regards to being "THE SOUTH" and now poor "English" speaking adults who grew up in poverty can't even get a minimum wage job because they can't speak a language they have no business having to learn to keep a roof over their heads? What is so glorious about that ****? That **** is a disgrace. When people talk about "the most beautiful people being in Miami" they sure aren't talking about those 400K that live in the inner city. The people "quoted" saying that have only been across the bridge to get to/from the airport. They sure weren't with me in Liberty City at the Martin Luther King Parade every year.

And what does old people and palm trees have to do with anything? Have you been to parts of Sistrunk, Dania Beach, Lauderhill, Riviera Beach, Boynton Beach, Pompano Beach, Deerfield Beach? I know people from Miami that absolutely REFUSE to go in areas because they are just as poverty stricken and full of violence/AIDS as parts of Miami are. Who cares? Welcome to the real world and welcome to urban life in major cities. Doesn't mean as a English speaking man I have to be looked down upon because I don't speak a language that isn't even native to my country. If that is what makes Miami this Shang Ri La to you, you can have it. Throw in the corrupt politics and nepitism that runs rapid down there and I just don't see how anybody can call that place special.

Sure there is culture. I love the women in Miami, mainly because of the diversity, I love the many different kinds of food that are available. I love the weather and I love the women (yea I said it twice) . . . but my reason for being here is different from yours . . . I'm here because 90% of my family lives in Dade/Broward counties and I'm a family person . . . my wife and I also have degrees in business management and travel/hospitality and Fort Lauderdale is home to the 2 largest cruise ships in the world and an expanding airport along with approvals for big table gambling for downtown Fort Lauderdale and the largest Outlet Mall in the world . . . and I want to be in the middle of what is going to be a big scene in the upcomming years.

I have family in Colorado that absolutely love it there, I got family in Atlanta that loves it there and in North Carolina as well . . . nobody misses this place. All they miss is the warm winters and family.

Your ignorance towards Broward and Palm Beach put a dark lining on your feelings for Miami-Dade. Miami has been poor well before it was overrun by Cubans and other Hispanics. The black community was always the heart of Miami was in regards to being "THE SOUTH" and now poor "English" speaking adults who grew up in poverty can't even get a minimum wage job because they can't speak a language they have no business having to learn to keep a roof over their heads? What is so glorious about that ****? That **** is a disgrace. When people talk about "the most beautiful people being in Miami" they sure aren't talking about those 400K that live in the inner city. The people "quoted" saying that have only been across the bridge to get to/from the airport. They sure weren't with me in Liberty City at the Martin Luther King Parade every year.

And what does old people and palm trees have to do with anything? Have you been to parts of Sistrunk, Dania Beach, Lauderhill, Riviera Beach, Boynton Beach, Pompano Beach, Deerfield Beach? I know people from Miami that absolutely REFUSE to go in areas because they are just as poverty stricken and full of violence/AIDS as parts of Miami are. Who cares? Welcome to the real world and welcome to urban life in major cities. Doesn't mean as a English speaking man I have to be looked down upon because I don't speak a language that isn't even native to my country. If that is what makes Miami this Shang Ri La to you, you can have it. Throw in the corrupt politics and nepitism that runs rapid down there and I just don't see how anybody can call that place special.

Sure there is culture. I love the women in Miami, mainly because of the diversity, I love the many different kinds of food that are available. I love the weather and I love the women (yea I said it twice) . . . but my reason for being here is different from yours . . . I'm here because 90% of my family lives in Dade/Broward counties and I'm a family person . . . my wife and I also have degrees in business management and travel/hospitality and Fort Lauderdale is home to the 2 largest cruise ships in the world and an expanding airport along with approvals for big table gambling for downtown Fort Lauderdale and the largest Outlet Mall in the world . . . and I want to be in the middle of what is going to be a big scene in the upcomming years.

I have family in Colorado that absolutely love it there, I got family in Atlanta that loves it there and in North Carolina as well . . . nobody misses this place. All they miss is the warm winters and family.

Fort Lauderdale and Miami are very special places so I agree with both of you to a degree.

I have traveled all over the United States. Lived in Kansas City and Philadelphia. Currently call Greenville, South Carolina home. I've spent time working in Washington, DC and seen all there is to see. I've been to Baltimore to Pittsburgh to amish country to Times Square to Boston to Providence to New Hampshire to Vermont and sat on the coast of Maine with incredible seafood dinners.

Climbed the mountains of the Appalachians, gamble in Biloxi, partied on Bourbon Street, celebrated New Year's in New Mexico, looked across the border into Juarez, Mexico from high rise mountains in El Paso.

Been all over Chicago and Detroit. Seen Mount Ranier on a clear day in Seattle from the top of the Space Needle, threw fish at Pike Place Market and done and seen a whole lot more.

But my heart & soul will forever stay in South Florida. You can leave South Florida but it never leaves you. There's nothing else like it in the entire world. It's an incredibly special place.

You don't solve anything by moving to a compromise location. That's the worst possible strategy. It guarantees you'll always be on the edge of the Everglades and therefore all but irrelevant. That area has no history and no pull. It reminds me of University of Miami leaders who looked at maps and lists of season ticket holders while trying to rationalize Sun Life as a positive switch, while conveniently ignoring that 25 miles removed from campus was a natural negative.

Make no mistake, the Dolphins would be in far better shape if Joe Robbie had relocated to the heart of the city. Attendance and otherwise. A great city always has opportunity to rebound, and the negatives are likely exaggerated to begin with. Quite often there's a natural lag. You'll read the most dire assessments when the area has already begun to reassert. It's like football or any sport, where a formerly great player has more chance to restore to that level than a mediocrity who has always been a mediocrity. Jeff Ireland seldom grasps that. He puts faith in Richard Marshall types. They perform on Everglades level, where they've always been. The auto industry debate was another example. There's always a big chunk willing to notice 30% efficiency and pronounce it will soon plummet to zero, instead of calmly recognizing there are foundational reasons the average has been above 70% for decades.

I hate it when people who have a problem with minorities disguise it as having a problem with the language. It's Miami! Little Cuba! You learn the language you ignoramous. Public schools in all of the country offer spanish speaking classes to english speakers. Do not be mad because you are too simple minded to understand another language. When I went to South Korea I attempted to learn the language and I only went for 2 weeks and still to this day I know how to say hello "anyong-haseo" and thank you "camsamida."

If you have a problem with people speaking spanish then educate yourself or move because hispanics have only just begun to boom in south florida and the United States. There are statistics that say hispanics will be the majority in the entire United States by 2050.

The history of the United States is based on immigration and adaptation. It seems like some of you just don't know.